Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on Matter
of Interest.

OF Interest.
The Indian scare in Greer county is
about over.
The spring round-ups are at work in
! the Panhandle.
There Wss refreshing rain in Burnett
county on Monday night.
Sheep shearing is the occupation now
OF sheepmen around Margaret.
| Mr.. John Edgell has purchased an office
and will start paper in Vernon.
An immigration board has been organ
lied by the citizens of Sherman.
There was shipped last week from
Groveton several carloads Of cattle.
The water let into the hydrants at Sher-
man On Thursday was pure and clear.
There has been $780, subscribed to-
wards building $4,000 hotel in Tyler.
The wheat and other crops in Harde,
man county are reported as looking well
| The prairie around Margaret is said to
be greener than it has been for two years.
The citizens of Hubbard City are work
! ing to secure an artesian well at that
| place.
Caldwell county has beeR Visited by
refreshing rains, and the 0utl6ek rs prom
Using. & -
Machinery for the Cleburne -gaswuks
is on the ground, and work will 'Isagihsat
| once. %a d
Travis county gives promise of ane
cotton and corn crops andSplenty q
grass. = 80 -
There is some difficulty III dssegmfnina
the place for the county Seat of Childers
county.
A subscription list is being circulated
with good success for boring an artesian
well in LadOnia.
John Fits of Fannin county has been
adiudged insane, and will be sent to the
asylum at Terrell.
The rains insure for Bell county a
corn crop of from thirty-fVe to fifty
| bushels per acre.
The wool clip on the Todd ranch in
Bandera county, from 400 sheep, amount
ed to 1000 pounds.
Mrs. Mary Thompson, adjudged in
sane at Sherman, was sent to the Terrell
asylum on Monday last.
| The hail of last week injured somewhat
the wheat and the garden in the vicinity
of Margaret and Vernon.
| It is determined to locate the Grayson
county Alliance mill at or near Sherman,
that city donating the ground On which
| to build.
On farm not far from Pilot Point, at
depth of 275 feet, vein of pure soft
water was struck that promises TO be an
OVerf0wing we'll.
Good rains are reported in San Saba
county, the corn crop is promising, and
the farmers of that drouth stricken sec
ton feel encouraged.
j. A. Murphy, living three miles north
west of Cleburne, lost two good milk
COWS and three hogs, Friday night. They
were killed by lightning.
The "Hardeman County News" OF May
has notices from the road commission
ers for the opening of three new roads to
be laid out from Margaret, the county
seat.
meeting was held at mckinney on
the Sd of May to raise stock to build an
elevator. The capital stock was limited
to $4,000, and the shares at $50 per
share.
Mr.. A. S. Roach, living near Margaret,
reports that his wheat sOWed in NOVem-
Der, will average twenty bushels to the
cN1CI anu GddL SOGGOuJ In!l1CL duO SUI quinn
on his place are looking well.
A number of citizens in Blanco county
have pledged themselves not to buy or
cause to be bought any lands in that
county advertised and sold for taxes, eX-
cept at the request of the owner of the
land.
The Fort Davis News is in receipt of
the Times of Morocco, of March 10, pub
lished at Tangiers, Africa. A leading
editorial is entitled, Narcotics Prohibited,
and contains notice of the British Con-
sui to the effect that the Sultan of Mo-
rocco has prohibited the Importation or
sale of opium, tobacco, or liquors, which
have been a government monopoly.
Among its advertisements is that of q
wind mill manufactured in New York.
1t contains the Hebrew and Mohammedan
calendars.